Jean Baptiste Adoue

Jean Baptiste Adoue, Jr. was the mayor of Dallas, Texas from 1951 to 1953. In 1942 and re-elected in 1943 and 1945, he was sitting at the city council where he became well known and appreciated. This resulted in a 1949 mayoral election in which he participated where he lost to Wallace H. Savage, though he received the most votes as an elected council member.

By 1951, another mayoral vote by the public brought him into office. During his term as a mayor which resulted in clashes between his office and number of unions, he passed a public-works program with which the Love Field would be expanded. When re-election came, Adoue didn’t run for a second term as he saw his health decline. He went back to his banker job after his mayor office term where he worked till his death on November 17, 1956, while working. He was buried at Crown Hill Memorial Mausoleum, Dallas, Texas.

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Phi Delta Theta Museum

The Phi Delta Theta International Fraternity General Headquarters in Oxford, Ohio houses and oversees precious archives and museum quality artifacts that have been acquired since the founding of this great Fraternity. These museum rooms were designed to preserve and interpret the rich history of the issues and individuals that have played an important role in the Fraternity’s history and represent its commitment to the Cardinal Principles of Friendship, Sound Learning and Rectitude.

In conjunction with a major renovation of the General Headquarters interior during the summer of 2016, and to make this museum experience accessible to all Phis, the General Headquarters created this digital museum to bring much of this rich Phi Delta Theta history to you, wherever you are and whenever you want it. Whether you are interacting with this unique digital museum in the Museum Room at the General Headquarters in Oxford, or viewing its content elsewhere, we hope it brings to life the broad and deep greatness experienced by Phis, and as a result of Phis, since our founding in 1848.